Time Magazine's 50 best Websites of 2009 [more inside]
posted by pearlybob on Aug 24, 2009 - 167 comments

So I've asked a few AskMefi questions now, and have noticed that they tend to get responses for about five hours, give or take, then the responses stop. When is the optimal time during the week to ask my AskMefi question, so that I get the maximum number of eyeballs looking at my question, and thus, get the maximum number of answers. I know that this may not necessarily increase the quality of the answers I get. I am talking about sheer quantity. Thanks!
posted by Sully on May 20, 2009 - 40 comments

Tiny UK-centric bug/oversight: time in top right shows British Summer Time, but we don't put our clocks forward here until March 29th.
posted by altolinguistic on Mar 11, 2009 - 31 comments

What are the peak hours of MeFi and AskMe? [more inside]
posted by pseudostrabismus on Mar 9, 2009 - 50 comments

Metafilter is one of Time's top blogs of 2009.
posted by empath on Feb 17, 2009 - 109 comments

I know we're all excited about tags at the moment but this comment got me looking at the 'MetaFilter gatherings' category. [more inside]
posted by tellurian on Oct 30, 2008 - 12 comments

Dear mathowie, jessamyn, and cortex: how many hours do you commit to keeping MeFi afloat? Is it a huge time commitment, not a big deal, or somewhere in the middle? It seems like a lot to juggle between three people. True? And if so, what takes up most of your time?
posted by SpacemanStix on Apr 28, 2008 - 86 comments

Metafilter is ranked #3 (is it a ranking?) on Time Magazine's first annual blog index. The full list on one page (via Valleywag).
posted by mrgrimm on Apr 7, 2008 - 112 comments

The time stamp for a comment / post no longer agrees with the displayed server time / preferences time in the user profile. [more inside]
posted by RichardP on Mar 9, 2008 - 26 comments

What is the best time of day (or, even more specifically, day of week and time) to ask metafilter? [more inside]
posted by rbs on Jan 21, 2008 - 54 comments

I've got my timezone set to UTC but Meta thinks it's 0.25 on the 14th when it's actually 23.25 on the 13th. Is this a 2k7 date hack that's fecked the site up for all non-Americans, or has the time gone wrong for everyone?
posted by twine42 on Mar 13, 2007 - 3 comments

When logged out, posts to Music and The Blue lack the timestamp inside.
posted by Eideteker on Mar 9, 2007 - 30 comments

Mathowie hates late people! ;-)

Is it possible to have the AskMe front page show the last 12 hours of questions instead of whatever it currently does (a number? a lesser time?)? As of now, questions asked in the morning appear to get many more replies than ones asked at night, which scroll off the bottom as the morning-risers repeatedly ask where they can get a tattoo or a decent meal in New York. ;-)
posted by Kickstart70 on Jul 31, 2006 - 19 comments

I read Crunchland's tips on FPPs but I was wondering if there were any statistics on quantity of replies to day of week/time of day. When are the surges? I'm guessing Thursday or Friday mid-afternoon.
posted by movilla on May 5, 2006 - 7 comments

Pony Request: Dates/Times on the MetaTalk RSS feed?
posted by blue_beetle on Feb 7, 2006 - 2 comments

AskMe questions still open for comments months after they were posted:

I thought that they were locked for archival purposes after 30 days? If this has changed, I didn't see where, and if this hasn't, it's a bug. I was perusing threads on Bipolar Disorder, and found this one from May, 2005: Is bipolar mis/overdiagnosed?. I was able to post a comment to the thread today, November 6th, 2005.

So, whatup?
posted by spinifex23 on Nov 7, 2005 - 4 comments

MarshallBrain's comment on this thread keeps sinking to the bottom despite there being latter posts.
posted by ori on Oct 30, 2005 - 9 comments

Time-zone custom settings don't work properly for AskMe or MeTa, you California-centric bastard.
posted by Civil_Disobedient on Sep 12, 2005 - 11 comments

So is there any kind of time factor dispensation for double posts?
I was emailed a link today that made me piss myself laughing, which I really feel the need for these days. I came here to post it but found it was already on the front page four years ago.
posted by CunningLinguist on Sep 8, 2005 - 56 comments

Time Zones don't appear to have been mentioned much in recent times.
And I was wondering whether migration of time zone tweaking to MeTalk and AskMeFi would still be going ahead? I get so confuzzled down here at times.
posted by peacay on Mar 11, 2005 - 8 comments

How do you regard the time you spend on MetaFilter? Is it information time (keeping up with the web; news-gathering); social time (discussing; engaging with others); fun pure and simple; vegetative-time (like watching indifferent TV); time-wasting when having a break from work...or what?
[Apologies if this question is of no interest to anyone but me.]
posted by MiguelCardoso on Nov 10, 2004 - 53 comments

I can usually manage enough spare time to read and comment on a few threads a few times per week.
It occurred to me (while reading this MetaTalk thread) that other members must spend a much larger portion of their time here. Just out of curiosity are these folks unemployed or retired or are they spending a big chunk of their work-day here?
I'd also like to add a broader question: how many threads do other people tend to follow during whatever period they spend on MetaFilter?
posted by snarfodox on May 9, 2004 - 52 comments

I don't mean to be prick (okay, maybe, but a funny one), but what's "MetaFilter Matt" doing making ponies for Boing Boing, when we have a million things for him to do here?
posted by wendell on Apr 9, 2004 - 48 comments

How important, with MeFi or Meta posts and comments, are extraneous factors like time, caffeine, midwork intervals or alcohol? Is there really a before and after coffee; a morning and late night inflection; according to how long you've been up and what you've ingested to get through the day? I think there is. Is the time-stamp your best counsellor and friend? Specially considering the wildly disparate time-zones? No names mentioned; just saying. In my humble opinion, the hour (and the perceived condition or, more generally, circumstances) says as much as the name. If not more.
posted by MiguelCardoso on Dec 25, 2003 - 41 comments

When I view the front page in a mode other than "date" (ie "most comments", etc), the times in GMT are out by 8 hours.
posted by Orange Goblin on Nov 27, 2003 - 3 comments

Since the start of December, whenever I've written a post for the front page, previewed it, then hit the final 'Post' I get this error, which says the 'request has exceeded the allowable time limit'.. and this occurs on the line where weblogs.com is pinged. My posts do make it to the front page but I just get this error.

Someone reported the same error six months ago, but it appears to have started again..
posted by wackybrit on Dec 23, 2002 - 8 comments

For the search page, how about at least one more option: in the past 3 months. Maybe it's just me, but I seem to always be using it to find threads that are approximately six weeks old. A minor coding change, a major performance change.
posted by dhartung on May 8, 2002 - 3 comments

Are congratulations in order? Fark just made Time's 50 Best WebSites list. Is it respectability at last? Is it scary? Or just, er, deserved? It's a very conservative, but well assembled list, and Fark certainly stand outs. I say "Bravo!".
posted by MiguelCardoso on Mar 27, 2002 - 40 comments

The Google Time Bomb- how weblogs are increasingly influencing the algorithms of Google's search engine. It looks like fun could be had with this. (From Microcontent news)
posted by RobertLoch on Mar 4, 2002 - 28 comments

How about, when previewing a comment, showing the current time in much the same way that the actual posted comment is flagged? (more)
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken on Feb 25, 2002 - 15 comments

Front page go boom.
posted by NortonDC on Jan 4, 2002 - 9 comments

I claim this thread and all its riches for me and my heirs.
posted by rodii on Oct 12, 2001 - 219 comments

You need to set your time-of-day clock; you're seven hours off.
posted by Steven Den Beste on Mar 24, 2000 - 1 comment